{"id":499,"date":"2011-12-25T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2011\/12\/no-church-this-sunday-its-christmas.html"},"modified":"2011-12-25T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T08:20:00","slug":"no-church-this-sunday-its-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2011\/12\/no-church-this-sunday-its-christmas.html","title":{"rendered":"No Church This Sunday &#8211; It&#8217;s Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I came across an interesting <i>Wall Street Journal <\/i>article by David Gibson, a fellow Catholic Furman alum. \u00a0It addresses the mind-boggling situation (mind-boggling to me) of many Protestants not going to church on Christmas, especially when it falls on Sunday. \u00a0I had assumed all Christians went to church on Christmas until a few years ago when I learned otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an interesting read\u2026 click on link below. <br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204464404577112630659721286.html?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150448230908354_20592119_10150450009943354\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">No Church This Sunday \u2013 It\u2019s Christmas<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting Wall Street Journal article by David Gibson, a fellow Catholic Furman alum. \u00a0It addresses the mind-boggling situation (mind-boggling to me) of many Protestants not going to church on Christmas, especially when it falls on Sunday. \u00a0I had assumed all Christians went to church on Christmas until a few years ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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